In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy): 1

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The issue here is twofold, as both the content and structure don’t offer Thacker any favors in helping him clarify his thoughts.

Here, Thacker takes a decidedly philosophical turn, as he attempts to define what exactly constitutes “life. There's always death to look forward to: Nihilist Arby's and the cheerful nihilism of the Internet", The Awl, August 2, 2017. A work like Gaston Bachelard's "The Poetics of Space" carries out its mission, exploring the abodes of the imagination, without appeal to logic (and remains a singular example of true philosophical genius). The chapters often leave the reader with more questions than answers, which can be stimulating and frustrating in equal measures. The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.See the essays "Data Made Flesh: Biotechnology and the Discourse of the Posthuman," Cultural Critique no. For fans of horror, philosophy, nihilism, witchcraft, and the occult, then this book is sure to challenge and leave you with more questions than answers.

Toward the end, I didn’t come away with a better understanding of how such a dark mysticism could be useful in reconfiguring our notions regarding our climate, and the political implications of his thesis are left rather vague and fuzzy. By contrast, the response of Medieval and early modern Christianity is primarily theological – the long tradition of apocalyptic literature, as well as the Scholastic commentaries on the nature of evil, cast the non-human world within a moral framework of salvation. I’m particularly interested in Demonology as supernaturalism or even historical or political but there is so much information here as first of a trilogy. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live - a central motif of the horror genre.What an earlier era would have described through the language of darkness mysticism or negative theology, our contemporary era thinks of in terms of supernatural horror. I think what Thacker is making reference to is very much like – if not identical to – what Kant has referred to as the “noumenal” world: the “thing-in-itself. While it often reads more like an academic thesis than an accessible work of pop-philosophy, it is still a worthwhile read, especially for fans of the genre. For an interview with the author Eugene Thacker where he discusses horror and philosophy go to http://www.